Okay, this is hilarious.
The Times of London is covering the socialist takeover of New York City and decided to reach out to the former mayor of New York to get his take on the matter.
So they emailed Bill de Blasio. And they got Bill de Blasio.
From Semafor:
As the New York City mayor's race entered its home stretch this week, a reporter for The Times of London, Bevan Hurley, sent an email to Bill de Blasio ...
He received an incredible response. While de Blasio has supported Democrat Zohran Mamdani's campaign, the former mayor confessed in an email to the New Zealand-born journalist that while he admired Mamdani's ambition, the Democratic nominee was making dangerously 'optimistic assumptions' about how much money new taxes would bring in.
'In my view, the math doesn't hold up under scrutiny, and the political hurdles are substantial,' de Blasio wrote.
You can see why this would be a huge story. The former mayor of NYC is second guessing his endorsement??
He said this to the Murdoch-owned Times of London, who quickly got the story to their sister-paper the New York Post, which led to Andrew Cuomo's team blasting it all over the place!
Mayor Bill de Blasio, however, was not pleased.
What the former mayor didn't realize is that The Times did actually interview Bill de Blasio!
They wanted to talk to Bill de Blasio, but they didn't bother to ask if he was THE Bill de Blasio.
(He wasn't.)
Three people familiar with the situation told Semafor that Hurley reached out to an email address the reporter believed belonged to the former mayor of New York. It's unclear where he got the address, or who it actually belongs to ...
Semafor reached out to a Gmail address our sources believed to be the one used by The Times.
'You are correct. It was me. The real Bill DeBlasio,' the person who controls the email address responded. The person didn't respond to further questions, and phone calls to two numbers associated with the email address went unanswered.
I sort of love this other Bill de Blasio!
He's definitely preferable to the groundhog killer. He just said he's "the real Bill de Blasio" and then peaced out.
We salute you, the REAL Bill de Blasio!
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